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! - . 10 THE CADUCEUS. SINEWS AND SCIENCE JOSEPH LAWLER, WSJNDELL ROBERTS, K. J. DALQUIST. WHO WAS WHO IN ATHLETICS BASEBALL BREIVTIES. Sergt. Jenkins, the efficient custodian of Uncle Sam’s mail is quite a follower of sports and in his day was a team mate of Joe Sockalexis, the fleetfoot ed Indian, who burned up the “big show.” Put the Sergeant on the other end of a Havana perfecto and he’ll tell you of the stunts that made this Indian the most talked about man in baseball. « * « Pvt. Wilson, of B-8, halls from Lynn, Mass., and used to play with different teams in that section. He held down an infield position with the General Elec tric team. « * « Pvt. Batchelor has played with dif ferent teams around Ansonia and was an infielder of repute. Batchelor also plays football. * * * Pvt. Ryder has played football with different semli>ro. teams around Fort Wayne and his services were always in demand. * « « Pvt. Oswald is getting the tennis courts ready for a busy season. This sport should be encouraged and is far from being a puny game as most people imagine. In order to play a game of lawn tennis right one must be in as good a physical condition as a prize fighter or football player, in fact, any of the sports that require stamina. * ♦ * Pvt. Overly was a lacrosse player with the Montreal Blues and held down coverpolnt for a number of years. Pvt. Booth, the genial fireman man aged a semi-pro. team in Brockton, Mass., for a number of years which was easily one of the best teams ever turn ed out of Brockton. « ♦ Pvt. Ptero, the custodian of B-1 is quite an all-around athlete, having played basketball, football and base ball. He has also devoted much time on the cinder paths, the dashes being his specialty. • * * * Pvt. Stump who halls from Port Wayne, has also dabbled in sports,^ be ing a member of different gymnasium teams who give exhibitions in all- around athletic work. » * * Pvt Rose has played football and baseball with West Haven High. -New football was this boy’s specialty and many games has he won by his con sistent offensive work. Private Francis Mills is with us again after having spent a very agree able ten-day leave at his home m Maine. (By K. J. D.) Hoffman certainly had the Indian sign on the Remount team. Breaking their backs was quite in order for them. Lange upset the dope and garnered four hits. It seemed to please the fans immensely. Is the jinx gone'/ Little top’s effort in left field prov ed futile. Dewey O’Connor claimed to have a ‘‘Kelley ’ glove and refused to go for the ball. Zecha’s bare hand stop of the drive in back of MacRae was easily the out standing feature. A quick recovery shut off a man at third. We recruited MacRae of Hie Medi cal Supply Depot to hold down third base and he did his duty nobly. Me is a good man for any team. Between furloughs and injuries the team surely is in a crippled state at the present time. Let’s hope the boys come around in good style soon, GOOD SCORES FOR BASE. At the athletic meeting held July 4 at the fair grounds. Private o. L Wheeler of the Q. M. corps. Base Hos pital, won first place in the broad jump and tied for third place in the running high jump. PONCHO PASSES OUT. Heretofore there has been no Uni form Reuglation providing a standard raincoat for officers, and the War De partment has decided that officers may purchase and wear the garment adopt ed as a standard raincoat for enlisted men, which will shortly be available in sufficient quantities for sale to offi cers. It has been decided to discontin ue the issuance of ponchos and that familiar feature of the United States solder’s equipment passes into his tory. Two types of the raincoat are be ing manufactured in standard olive drab color. The garment for dismount ed troops is several inches shorter than that provided for Cavalry and oth er mounted detachments. At present raincoats for dismounted troops only are being issued as the production of the coat for mounted troops has not been sufficient to commence issue; but it will be only a short time before there will be an ample supply for ev ery branch of the Service. The price of the coat for dismounted troops when sold to officers will be approximately $5.50; the price for the mounted troops when sold to officers will be approximately $6.75. The new style coat when folded will take up very little more room than is required for the poncho, and it is believed by the officers of the General Staff that sol diers wearing rain coats will be able to handle .their pieces with greater ease than was possible when they were wearing the old poncho. LITTER TEAM WII>.S. Honors also went to the Base Hos pital in the litter bearers’ race; Greene, Gilroy and MacMahon winn ing first place in 25 1-5 seconds. These were the only men who show ed enough Interest to enter these events and they are to be compliment ed on their excellent showing, a more men had tried we might have had some more victories to boast of. There is good material here and it is hoped that in the future more will try. SAME WITH NO. 54. And now comes Col. Raymond F'. Bacon, of the Ordnance Department of the Army, and adds a new slogan to the national list. “Gas will win the war,” he says, meaning a much more deadly vapor than the hot air which usually sur rounds a state or national capital. Just a few days ago we were told: “Posters will win the war.” Which reminds me I mA an old friend of mine, a fighting colonel in the Marine Corps, a few days ago, and I asked him when he was “going ov er.” “Never, I guess,” he replied some what dolefully. “How’s that?” I asked in surprise, knowing he stood high in his pro fession. “Why, you’ve heard all about it,” he explained. “You know that food will win the war, that ships will win the war, that airplanes will win the war, that the Red Cross will win the war, that the Y. M, C. A. will win the war— everything is going to win the war for us—so the departments have decided not to send over any more soldiers or sailors.” OH! DOC! A surgeon was momentarily dazed, recently while making his rounds in one of the wards, by a soldier who had recently been operated on. The surgeon was passing his bed when the soldier querilously inquired, -ay, doctor, when one doctor doctors an other doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor the other doctor the way the other doctor wants to be doctored? Or does the doctor do ing the doctoring doctor the other doctor like the doctor doing the doc toring wants to doctor him?” By “S. C. D. GODDBRIOiv.” * Two lawyers before a country justice recently got into a wrangle. At last one of the disputants, losing control of his temper, exclaimed to his op ponent; “Jim Rogers, you are the big gest jackass I ever set eyes upon!” The justice pounded the desk and called loudly; “Order! Order! You seem to forget that I fpn in the room.”
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